L YC.ENID.E. AS 



Cumberland, is correct. On the eastern side of England tlie 

 only record north of Northamptonshire is that (without 

 locality) by the late Mr. T. H. AUis, in Lincolnshire. In 

 Ireland it has been found near Blarney, County Cork ; and 

 my old friend, the late Mr. Edwin Birchall, found it in plenty 

 near Oranmore, in the county Galway, very much at home 

 on the blossoms of the great masses of bramble. In 1864 

 he also found it at Killarney. 



Widely distributed in Europe and Central Asia. 



'l. T. w-album, Knock. — Expanse, l\ to If inch. 

 Smoky black above. White line beneath forming a dis- 

 tinct AV. Tail slender. 



Blackish-brown, the male frequently having a faintly paler 

 ovate spot at the end of the discal cell of the fore wings. 

 Hind wings in both sexes with a slender tail one-eighth of an 

 inch in length, and beside it a short point. The anal angle 

 is also slightly produced. Under side greyish-brown, the 

 fore wings with a slender white transverse stripe beyond the 

 middle, continued obliquely upon the hind wings, where it 

 forms by sharp and repeated angles a distinct W. At the 

 hind margin of the hind wings is an orange band margined 

 internally with black crescents, and bounded externally by 

 black spots. Female similar. 



Hardly variable except in the presence or absence of the 

 pale spot near the costa in the male. Very rarely, specimens 

 are found semitransparent from imperfect development of 

 the scales, though otherwise uninjured. Such abnormal 

 specimens exist in the cabinets of Mr. S. Stevens and the 

 late Mr. H. Doubleday. A magnificent and probably unique 

 aberration in the collection of Mr. Sydney Webb has on the 

 under side an extension of white colour from the white line 

 towards the margin, in the fore wings forming a broad 

 wedge-shaped band, but in the hind wings occupying the 

 whole space from the white line to the orange baud. 



July. 



